Use of Antiepileptic Drugs and Dementia Risk—an Analysis of Finnish Health Register and German Health Insurance Data

Objectives To evaluate the association between regular antiepileptic drug (AED) use and incident dementia. Design Case‐control analysis. Setting Finnish public health register and German health insurance data. Participants Individuals with dementia of any type (German data, N=20,325) and Alzheimer's disease (AD; Finnish data, N=70,718) were matched with up to four control persons without dementia. Measurements We analyzed the association between...